This week, EMV remained center stage in retail security news, as the battle between banks and retailers over fees and adoption of new security measures continued to play out on a very public stage. Meanwhile, a number of other security issues, some surrounding EMV, also...
Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) vendors enable developers to connect back-end cloud infrastructure to their apps and push various services, but security researchers are now casting doubts on how secure these BaaS applications truly are. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
Handwriting analysis has become a popular subject for criminologists thanks to TV procedurals like “Law & Order” and “CSI,” but what if the pseudoscience could be put to use to keep smartphones and mobile devices more secure than regular passwords can? Get the Full Story...
First Data, the eCommerce company, and payments hardware giant NCR Corp. are now partners in a strategic agreement, the two companies said on Monday (Nov. 16). Financial terms remain undisclosed. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
Payment fraud losses amounted to $16.31 billion last year — with card-not-present fraud forecasted to reach 40 percent of that total at $6.4 billion by 2018 in the U.S. alone. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
Though the shift to the chip cards tied to EMV had a major turn in the press, it seems that that the days leading up to the actual Oct. 1 liability handoff had still left many consumers in the United States unaware of just what...
Marc Andreessen, a Facebook board member who has been on its board since 2008, appears to be shedding his weight in the company. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...
Last week cybersecurity firm FireEye not only fell short of investor expectations when their earnings were released, but the company also laid part of the blame for its disappointing results on the fact China is now playing nice, therefore causing “a reduction in the threat...
With an eye on flexibility in a post-EMV world, Datacap has introduced a new way to enable payments across environments as diverse as cash registers, vending machines, and mPOS- all powered by the cloud.
